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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 2.0156S, 128.2998WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:14:47 / 9:14 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 135.3 km, 128.2998° East, 2.0156° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/09/19 / 2019-09-28 00:14:47 / September 28, 2019 @ 12:14 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 135.3 km (84 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us70005s2z. Unique identifier: us70005s2z.

Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo. Epicenter of the event was 45 km (28 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 45 km NE of Tobelo, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.2998° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.0156° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 135.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km NE of Tobelo, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-28 00:14:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-11 22:42:45 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 271 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.548 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 131 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70005s2z Id of event.
Event Code 70005s2z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005s2z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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